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Antonio Gramsci
Italian
Politician
About the author
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician
#Challenge
#Modernity
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician
#Truth
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician
#Will
#Spirit
#Optimism
#Pessimism
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician
#Strength
#Knowledge
#Practicality
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician
#Will
#Intelligence
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician